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Sabine, Clais and Orm were children when their fathers were murdered by the RAF. Their childhood therefore ended violently and too soon. In this documentary, they tell how terrorism changed their lives and those of their family forever - and continues to shape them to this day.

A German Film Award silver medal winning short documentary.

With over 4000 minibuses pouring in at intervals, thousands of commuters and petty traders trying to scratch a living, Kampala Taxi Park gyrates with the rhythm of a typical African city. Yet in the midst of what looks like perfect chaos, travellers, and drivers still manage to find their way round. This documentary lays out the atmosphere of this amazingly busy spot, from the crack of dawn to deep in the night.

A documentary about two friends travelling around the world with only basic things, a sailing boat and a school bus. On their way they are trying to gather and record the music of every country they visit.

Along the wild Namibian coastline, where the Atlantic crushes against ancient desert, a silent crisis unfolds. Thousands of "Cape fur seals" are fighting a deadly and ever-growing threat: marine debris. Ghost nets, fishing lines and plastic waste drift silently through the ocean, ensnaring thousands of animals each year. UNSEEN LINE follows the work of Ocean Conservation Namibia (OCN), a small but fiercely dedicated NGO founded by Naude and Katja Dreyer. What began as a spontaneous rescue of a single seal has evolved into a full-time mission: a race against the increasing tide of ocean waste.

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

As a diplomat, Andrei Sannikov was instrumental in Belarus' nuclear disarmament in the 1990s. Under dictator Lukashenko, he resigned from the civil service and began the fight for a democratic Belarus, which cost the lives of companions and landed him in prison for a time.

A black paste that made our world louder and happier: when inventor Emil Berliner began using shellac as a sound carrier in 1896, this was the initial spark for a media revolution that has continued right up to the present day. It had already begun ten years earlier with Emil Berliner's invention of the gramophone. Together, the record and the record player changed people's everyday lives. It was a revolution - technically and culturally - because shellac records, unlike wax cylinders, could be reproduced and distributed on a mass scale. 78 revolutions per minute became the standard playback speed and shellac - the resinous paste made from slate flour, cotton, soot and the resin of the lacquer louse - gave the record its name and became synonymous with an era.

Film by Alexander Kluge.

The documentary "A Poet is Killed" recounts the story of the murder of contemporary poet and writer Mohammad Mokhtari, who was killed during The chain murders in 1998 in Iran.

Documentary about Hollywood Boulevard and Hollywood itself.

A look back on Hungarian history ends in the bloody present of October 1956: The suppression of the uprising in Budapest, filmed from the point of view of those affected. The material was smuggled abroad and assembled there by refugee filmmakers. A direct contemporary document which at the end reflects the powerlessness of the West: Nobody came to help.

Juliane Lorenz on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lili Marleen.

Eduard Starcic's documentary highlights the deeply rooted human need to actively shape both one's environment and the self. At its core are the artists, whose individual forms of expression and creative works profoundly influence the act of creation and thought.

This documentary explores Iran's revolutionary movement, sparked by Jina Mahsa Amini's death in 2022, from the German diaspora's perspective. Over a year, Roxana Samadi followed ten individuals, highlighting their efforts and struggles supporting the revolution.

In 1988 the largest demonstrations and strikes ever in the history of the Soviet Union took place in Armenia. The immediate cause for it was the demand of Nagorno Karabakh, an autonomous area in Azerbaijan, to be an administratively accounted Armenian territory.

Life is by no means easy for eight-year-old Dominik from the Berlin district of Hellersdorf. Living with his younger brother and sister and his single mother, he finds himself constantly torn between his sense of responsibility ty to the family and his own desires as he struggles to make his own life. This documentary portrait of Dominik accompanies him during the ups and downs of his daily life.

Documentary about Carrol Baker and her 50 years of movies, shows and more.

What is love? And how does it function as an emotion? Looking at the latest research from Heidelberg and Hannover universities as well as Seattle’s ‘Love lab’, scientists analyse love the biology of love.

Planned as a critical satire on the preparations for the shah's visit to Germany in 1967, the events captured in this seminal television documentary constitute a turning point in German history, culminating in the killing of the student Benno Ohnesorg.

The second half of Gustav Deutsch's experimental Film ist. series, constructing new narratives and moods out of existing footage, mostly from early silent era films.

This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify and extols the "benefits" of euthanasia.

This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals with emerging fascism and the persecution of Jews, as well as with their historical continuities.

The film focuses on a group of people with various disabilities who are helped by the Hamburg-based association “Insel” to lead largely independent lives. We see them at home, at work, and at the “Insel” premises, where they meet every Thursday afternoon to drink coffee and talk.

Documentary on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Berlinale - history of 60 years of the Berlin International Film Festival.

Dr. Motte and Wladimir Kaminer, but also Schraubermicha, Joe Hatchiban and Ginger Brown - they all use it. The Mauerpark is located on the former death strip in Berlin. The Wall used to separate people from each other, but today the park reunites them. Punks lie next to mothers with children and artists paint next to basketball players. A unique mixture of madness and relaxation comes together here...

A projector from 1938 - on the road for 60 years. Helmut Göldner travels from village square to village square to entertain the residents with his mobile cinema. And he has been doing this with unbroken energy for 60 years. In KINOMANN, director Matthias Ditscherlein shows an almost forgotten time - and cinema as it really is.

An exploration of Cologne Cathedral, an emblematic monument and world heritage site. The towering place of worship took over 600 years to complete. Once the tallest building in the world, its ornate facade remains a masterpiece of Gothic architecture - and a reflection of the evolution of Franco-German relations.

A river trip from Moscow to St. Petersburg, in which mainly German seniors take part. For 14 days you will experience a dense program of churches, art, vodka and the Volga. You will be chased through old villages with hundreds of souvenir stands. On the ship you will learn Russian songs and folk dances and can do gymnastics under supervision. But the film lives from the protagonists, the idealistic Renate, who mourns communist Russia, Peter, who doesn't like traveling, who only went along for the sake of his girlfriend ("One tree looks like another"), and the passionate Ellen, who is unhappy in... Peter in love. A helicopter is flown in to rescue a seriously ill passenger. But what also makes the cynical Peter think are the wonderful sunsets, the beautiful nature, the peace and the vastness of the Russian landscape. And in the end, a little piece of the Russian soul remains.

Artful documentary about the use of our hands.

Karola Hattop juxtaposes the many media images of confident working women and the men who support them with a naïve reporter who finds out that in practice equal rights are often quite a different matter. Somewhat pushy, he seeks out women at the hairdresser’s and in the maternity wear department, joins functionaries in their cars, crashes wedding parties and sneaks into museum tours for children. A revelatory curiosity full of the casually captured mundane drabness that was often revealed more clearly in student films than in comparable DEFA productions.

Russian actor and pedagogue, Gennadi Bogdanov, presents the most important etudes and principles of Vsevolod Meyerhold's Biomechanics. Includes archival photographs and film of Meyerhold's original work and also recent scenic work from Europe and the U.S. developed on the principles of bio-mechanics.

An early video work by Ivan Ladislav Galeta that underlines the perceptual presumptions of video-media.

Nora loves wasps and hates piano music. And Nora is going to die soon. This is what the doctors say, but Nora just seems to stay alive, despite her physical and mental disabilities. The films tells the story of Nora who now became 30 years old.

Travel film about South Tyrol, the Dolomites and Lake Garda.

Using the puppet of a night watchman as an example, the creation of a hand puppet for the puppet show is described.

A biologist describes her research into various species of frogs in the rainforest of Central America and their mysterious disappearance as if it were a criminal case. Brilliantly animated drawings accompany her vivid scientific analysis.

Why has the German film and television industry so far not found a natural way of dealing with people with a migration background? The documentary "Kino Kanak" begins a complex search for traces.

The film approaches one of the greatest choreographers of our time on several levels: John Neumeier. Now, after 51 years, he is ending his time as head of the Hamburg Ballet. A turning point and occasion for a search for traces of origins, influences and possible secrets. In the USA, John Neumeier embarks on a journey into his own past and visits places from his childhood and youth.

Documentary about James Ellroy

Sabine Marina has the diagnosis 'Multiple sclerosis' which her doctor describes to her as a 'little grey cloud "german: 'Kleine graue Wolke'" on your blue sky'. In this movie, the strong young filmmaker Sabine faces existential questions and meets other people with the same diagnosis to find a way from her fears back into life.